Evening Session - 5/20/2020

We went out again today.  The swell came down a notch again.  The wind and the tide were virtually the same as yesterday.  The crowd was thinned out a little bit compared to the last few days.  Marlon brought his longboard and was riding everything.

I brought out the same setup, but changed the front wing out from the GL140 to the GL180.  It took a few waves to get used to the additional lift.  This is the first run with the GL180 front and the P18W rear with the washer added to the rear bolt.  No attitude issues with the adjusted tail - works just as well as it does with the GL140 riding level.  After the beatings I took on the first few waves - the additional lift was enough to throw me off on takeoff on the bigger set waves - I had to back down and catch the smaller waves or white water.  The next several waves offered predictable takeoffs, long glides, turns that were not as tight as those with the GL140 (but still fun), and pumpability - I was able to pump back out on several waves.  So after riding the GL140 for several sessions and then jumping back to the GL180, the latter is definitely the chest high and lower wing and the GL140 is the waist high and above foil.  The GL180 excels at gliding (without pumping excessively) and pulling off a wave and pumping back out.  The GL140 lets you take advantage of the energy present in bigger waves - you can turn it super hard and takeoff on more critical waves because of the lower lift.  A two wing, one board quiver is pretty enlightening.